[cobirds] Shorebirding, Boulder and Weld Counties

COBirders, I birded a few locations around Boulder this evening hoping for shorebirds. The birding was fairly good, with something good at each location: Walden/Sawhill (Boulder): -1 Willet -2 Greater Yellowlegs -1 Wilson's Snipe -2 Baird's Sandpipers -Many American Avocets Union Reservoir (Weld)

[cobirds] The Pawnee National Grasslands in the Spring

Poudre Learning Center Nature Club presents Bill Popejoy on "The Pawnee National Grasslands in the Spring". April 30, 2009 from 6:30pm to 9pm Location: Poudre Learning Center 8313 W F Street, Greeley Bill will share some of the highlights of nature in the Pawnee National Grasslands in anticipat

[cobirds] Broad-winged Hawk, Colorado Springs (El Paso)

Hi all,   An adult Broad-winged Hawk flew over the Kohl's parking lot (Circle and Janitell) while I was sitting in the car and talking to my mom on the cell phone.  You just never know...      Two days ago, I saw my FOS Chipping Sparrows at Red Rock Canyon open space on the west side of to

[cobirds] Shorebirds, Ramah SRA El Paso County

A late afternoon jaunt out to Ramah SRA (extreme NE El Paso County) showed some turn over in the shorebird department today. What surprised me most was how much the water line had receded since Sunday. Unless there is some rain, I'd guess there may only be a couple of weeks of shorebird habit

[cobirds] Rocky Mountain Raptor Program to the Rescue!

A birder friend writes "I saw this bird on 4-21-09, didn't have reason to think anything was wrong with it. When I saw it today,4-22-09, at the exact same spot I knew something had to be wrong with it. The right wing was injured. It's now being treated at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program rehab ce

[cobirds] Sage sparrow and much more, RMNP

CObirders, Gary Matthews, my wife Julie, and I had great birding in Endovalley in Rocky Mountain National Park today. We birded Sheep Lakes and took a walk on each side of the alluvial fan. Our total for the morning was 28 species. Our best bird was a sage sparrow, first spotted by Gary so

[cobirds] Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer) on 4/22

Grandview Cemetery was fairly quiet today but the following are changes since my last visit 10 days ago: Great Horned Owl (two babies peeking out of the American Elm crotch, Mom went somewhere else for elbow room) Chipping Sparrow (big flock) Broadwinged Hawk (1a in the center of the cemetery ju

[cobirds] Lifetime County lists updated

COBirders,   The lifetime county lists have finally been updated and are available on the CFO website.  Very sorry for the very slow turnaround   http://cfo-link.org/birding/county_reports.php   The horizontal list will be updated soon (I hope tonight). - Mark Peterson Colorado Springs --

[cobirds] warblers, kingbird, phoebe-Prowers4/22

Ok, so I hadn't seen any warblers. But after I sent the last post I was working in the yard and saw yellow rumped and Wilson's warblers. Also saw my FOS western kingbird and say's phoebe. Chipping sparrows came through and am still hearing white crowned sparrows. Spring hath sprunged! Judi

[cobirds] Boulder County birds

From north-central Boulder County: Linda Andes George asked me to post the following message as she can no longer post to cobirds: I've had a housewren in the yard, multiple tree swallows scouting the birdhouses and being routed by a miserable but stout little house sparrow, and many kettle

[cobirds] Birdhouse Report - USAFA

Hi COBirders, Weekly check of 85 "bluebird" houses at the USAFA showed 7 early nests being constructed - I think all by WB Nuthatch. Four seem ready but no eggs yet (have seemed prepared for at least a week. - waiting for bugs??). Also, had two FOY VG Swallow - BUT both were inside boxes

[cobirds] Chico Basin Banding - Wed

Hi COBirders, Nancy Gobris, RMBO, opened the CBR banding station for the season, this morning. As expected this early, not too many captures - about 15 total, but a few good early discoveries. While it is starting to green-up after the moisture, this week has been pretty hot for April -

[cobirds] Reminder for this Next Monday: DFO: International Bird Conservation/More

On April 27, 2009 (Monday night), Chris Pague from the Nature Conservancy will discuss some of the challenges of grassland conservation and the birds that live in them.  Chris will bring his experiences from around the world (including Mongolia , Mexico , Argentina , and the USA ) to discuss thi

[cobirds] Broad-winged Hawk - BCLP - Jefferson County

About 10:00 A.M. I observed a light phase male Broad-winged Hawk circling above the entrance to Bear Creek Lake Park. As soon as the bird had gained some height using the thermals, it took off in a NE direction. Not anything else new in BCLP this morning - a few male Audubon and Myrtle Yello

[cobirds] Yellowheaded blackbirds-Prowers

Hi all, My husband saw a flock of yellowheaded blackbirds in our yard on Monday 4/20. I saw a shrike on my way home from Granada on County Road 27. Sorry, I didn't stop to see which it was! We have also had an abundance of great tailed grackles in our yard. I have some light colored dove as

[cobirds] Weld County birds Tuesday April 21

Hi Cobirders . Went birding from the car until my feet heal. Highlights : Road 42 -Beebe Draw Yellow-headed Blackbirds -30 all male Great-tailed Grackles 7 males and 2 females Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Barn Swallow 1 flyby Road 48 Willet 1 Snow Goose 1 hanging loose

[cobirds] Birding Pawnee National Grassland, Weld CO, Co

Hi all, Yesterday was a red letter day for long-billed curlews out on the Pawnee Grassland. I saw 4 flocks of long-billed curlews, 24, 19, 14, and 11 birds in each flock. Most were seen in the vicinity of the intersection of Weld County Roads 55 and 120. Also seen at this location were 6 mounta

[cobirds] Wild Turkey at Chatfield

Sorry for the late post, but yesterday I saw 2 Wild Turkeys in the small strip of Chatfield between the eastbound C470/Santa Fe exit and the Diamond Shamrock on Santa Fe. I've never seen turkeys in this area before. Regards -Greg Pasquariello Littleton, CO --~--~-~--~~--

[cobirds] Dillon; First of Season Swallows

Tree Swallows - This a.m. on Bluebird Trail situated along bike path on lake in Dillon, circling nest sites forcing the Bluebirds to take nest-selection seriously. American Pippits - Thurs Apr 16 pre-snow storm - 2 Pippits in yard; then during the 3-day snowstorm a flock of Pippits frequented t